A Reminder from American Anthropologist Margaret Mead

Frequent commenter MarcoPolo notes: The evolution of human society is never logical or well ordered, instead it’s fairly chaotic with all kinds of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys, but it does progress.

Yes, it does progress, but most of the real strides are driven by the brave and bold acts of a few.  Now, I’m not calling myself “brave and bold,” but it’s clear that our world changes because we make it change.  You’ve heard the quote to the left 100 times before, but it’s worth repeating.

The point: we have far more power to change the world around us than we’re led to believe.